The Story of Emoji

Charity marketers and fundraisers use emoji. You see them every day in email subject lines, on Tweets, in WhatsApp messages and in many places. But do you know their history, and just how popular they are? Gavin Lucas describes emoji as the fastest-growing language of all time. He mentions a lecture series at the University of Cambridge in the 1930s in which philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein proposed a method of simplifying conversations and conveying feelings in the form of drawn expressions of just four strokes. Lucas suggests that that is an early example of emoji. Lucas then argues that emoji are not really a new language, but a representation of one of the oldest methods of communication - conveying emotion by our facial expressions. So it looks like emoji are more than a keyboard full of yellow faces.  

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